Comments on: SPOTIO Interviews the Canvass King https://spotio.com/blog/interview-with-chris-thompson-the-canvass-king/ #1 Field Sales Engagement Platform Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:33:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: treygibson https://spotio.com/blog/interview-with-chris-thompson-the-canvass-king/#comment-151 Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:58:02 +0000 https://spotio.com/blog/?p=2233#comment-151 In reply to Daniel Cook.

Greatness! Thanks for sharing. I’ve got to interview you and learn about this Delorean. Sending email now.

]]> By: Daniel Cook https://spotio.com/blog/interview-with-chris-thompson-the-canvass-king/#comment-150 Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:08:53 +0000 https://spotio.com/blog/?p=2233#comment-150 Having knocked over a million doors people always ask me “How do you know? ” Simple. Tracking! Where it all started. I was 11 years old. I came from a lower middle class family of six kids. Life was about hand me downs. Who wants to be riding your sister’s bike? Talk about pier pressure. All the kids in the neighborhood made jokes. It got to the point where I had enough.
While reading a Boys Life magazine I saw an ad where if I sold so many boxes of greet cards I could get a prize or get a quarter for each box I sold. Now we are talking 1964 here. I decided I was going to take the 25 cents a box.
I filled out the paper work and within 2 weeks I receive 20 boxes of cards. Now what was I going to do? “Mom help! Mom first told me to wear my school uniform. Then she gave me my sales pitch. I was to tell the people who I was. Where I lived and explain who my family was. Everyone knew my family with six kids. Mt dad was known because he was a coach, a volunteer fireman, and worked for the phone company. A lot of people knew my Dad. The first thing Mom did was write down everyone’s name and where they lived. She showed me how to show people the magazine with the picture of the bike that I was trying to win. She put all the names in notebook. Off I went.
I was to keep notes on everything. If they were home. Did they buy and so on. If I was to go to the door of someone that I did not know their name. I was to tell them the name of their neighbor next door. “Name dropping” LOL!
Sure enough I did fantastic. I asked everyone if they could help me win the bike. I show them the picture of the bike. This is wear I learned to look “The Puppy Dog.” Well it worked. Before you knew it I was heading home with no boxes of cards, I was so excited to reorder more cards.
Sure enough I made enough money for the bike. Not just any bike a ten speed. I was the first in my neighborhood with a ten speed.
From there I got a paper route. I tracked everything. Which led to making enough money to buy a snow blower at 14 years old. In 1992 While at Electrolux I earned $52,000. in one month. My team needed 1,500 in one month. If you walked in to my office with all the tracking charts you would have thought you were at a command post. ;). I could see everything at the tip of my nose.. “What gets tracked gets done!” Sometime I’ll have to share how tracking was able to help me buy a DeLorean back in 1982 for cash. The hardest door to open in D2D is your car door to go to work.:)

]]> By: Michael French https://spotio.com/blog/interview-with-chris-thompson-the-canvass-king/#comment-149 Fri, 11 Sep 2015 01:31:25 +0000 https://spotio.com/blog/?p=2233#comment-149 Great interview just love Canvass Talk I’ve done Door TO Door for 10 years with over 50,000 plus doors I’ve knocked…… scrips i hate because they have to much sales pitch @ the door soooooo true i also come from TIMESHARE school of hard knocks…

Great interview….!!

He is the REAL Deal.

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